Alabama Returns to Coleman Coliseum to Face Jacksonville State

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama will face Jacksonville State for the third straight season as the in-state opponents will square off at Coleman Coliseum. The Crimson Tide enter Friday's matchup ranked as the No. 1 rebounding team in the country, averaging 58.3 rebounds per contest.

The Broadcast

Friday's game will be aired on the SEC Network with Kevin Fitzgerald (play-by-play) and Jon Sunvold (analyst) on the call.

The radio broadcast can be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network with Chris Stewart (play-by-play) and Bryan Passink (analyst) on the call, while Tom Stipe (engineer) is turning the dials. The pregame show will begin one hour prior to tipoff.

Notes You Need To Know

Alabama ranks No. 1 in the country in rebounds per game (58.3) and rebound margin (24.7) and No. 2 in defensive rebounds per game (38.6).
For the first time since 2011-12, Alabama has held three straight opponents to under 60 points to start the season.
Noah Clowney ranks No. 28 in the country in rebounds per game (10.7).
Alabama is the only team in the SEC that has four players ranked in the top 10 in rebounds per game in Clowney (No. 1, 10.7), Brandon Miller (No. 3, 9.7), Charles Bediako (No. 7, 8.0) and Mark Sears (No. 9, 7.3).
Alabama's newcomers have scored 200 of the Tide's 235 points this season.
The Crimson Tide's Brandon Miller is one of two players in the SEC that is currently averaging a double-double (Trevon Brazile, Arkansas) as Miller is averaging 17.0 ppg and an SEC-best 10.5 rpg.
Alabama welcomes the highest ranked recruiting class in program history, including McDonald's High School All-Americans Jaden Bradley and Brandon Miller, along with four-start prospects Noah Clowney and Rylan Griffen.
The Tide is one of seven schools in the country (Arizona, Creighton, Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina and UCLA) to have a player on the Bob Cousy, Julius Erving and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar watch lists this preseason.
The 2022-23 Crimson Tide roster features four McDonald's All-Americans. In addition to Bradley (2022) and Miller (2022), Nimari Burnett (2020) and Quinerly (2019) also earned the national honor. It is the most McDonald's All-Americans on the same roster in program history.
Up Next: The Crimson Tide will travel to Portland, Ore. to compete in the Phil Knight Invitational. Alabama will begin the PKI on Nov. 24 against Michigan State.

About Jacksonville State

Jacksonville State is coming off its second appearance in the NCAA men's Division I basketball tournament last season. Both appearances have come under head coach Ray Harper.
Following a 13-3 conference mark and regular-season league title, JSU's Ray Harper was named the conference's Coach of the Year. It becomes Harper's first D-1 Coach of the Year honor, after a legendary run in Division II and NAIA ranks saw him collect seven conference coach of the year honors and five national coach of the year awards. JSU's only other coach to receive such honors was Bill Jones as a three-time Gulf South Conference Coach of the Year recipient in 1985, 1990 and 1992.
Last season JSU reached the 20-win plateau for the fifth time in its Div. I history last season, and for the fourth time under current coach Ray Harper.
Following the departure of its five starters and others from last year's ASUN championship team, coach Ray Harper's squad was predicted to finish third by both the coaches and media in league play this season behind Liberty and Jacksonville in both polls.
Jax State's 2022 ASUN regular season title became the first regular-season conference championship JSU has won in its Div. I era since 1995, after winning the OVC Tournament title in 2017. Overall, JSU now claims 20 men's basketball conference titles going back to the 1962 Alabama Collegiate Conference Tournament championship.

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